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William (Bill) Morrison was my grampa Morrison's brother.

Uncle Bill graduated from Annapolis when my mom was a year old. My G and G went to Annapolis for the graduation. It was a fancy affair. the women all wore formal gowns. When he was shaking hands with the admiral, his step-mother Lotty yelled, "Get off my train you SOB." Once Lotty won a bike at a bar and rode it off the bar and hurt herself.

When he left Annapolis he married Sarah. He first went to the Spanish Civil War. Many people who lived in the US did not know US participated in it. Then he moved to Pearl Harbor. Freddy was born in June. He was the commander of the McCall. He was out in the bay when the Japanese started bombing Pearl Harbor. There was an older couple next door to his wife and Freddy on base. The neighbor came to check on Sarah and a bomb hit the porch and killed him. Sarah and Freddy left in Feb on the last plane to the US with Civilians. The plane had come from Guam and had bullet holes. She went to California and then Texas. F had tropical impetigo with 300 boils. They were not sure if he would live. They stayed in Elyria for a few weeks with my mom and her parents.

Sarah died of an aneurism when Freddy was 16 when they were living in Concord California.

During WWII he was at the Aleutian Islands, the Solomans, The Marianas. He received a Purple Heart when his ship was shot at and he fell out of his bunk.